Review of Nisekoi: False Love

Brief overview: It's about two couples who are forced to be couples in order to keep peace in their neighbourhood. Review will be based on the whole series, up to season 2 9/10 for the whole series Introduction Raku Ichijou has big dreams when he started high school. He wants to study hard, go to a prestigious University and establish his own corporate empire. However, after his first day of High school, he is suddenly forced to be in a relationship with a girl called Chitoge as both families are from a rival mafia family. If no peace is settled between the two of them, then chaos andwar would occur between both factions. Therefore, both of them are forced to be in a pretentious relationship.

Story 9/10
The story is about Raku, who is having a peaceful life with big future, dreams, and is suddenly forced to be in a fake relationship with Chitoge. However, his heart is set towards Onodera, but due to the family circumstances of both Chitoge and Raku, they are forced to be in a pretentious relationship as both families are rivals Mafia groups, however, their parents, who are the leaders of the family, are good friends to each other. In order to keep peace, the Mafia group needs to know that both Chitoge and Raku are in a relationship, so both groups can have a peace of mind. Afterwards, the story is more of an additional content added in, and the whole style of the story hasn't changed that much, which is about Raku that keeps getting dragged into other girls' situations and is forced to play by their rules. It is a school-based harem drama that is heavily based on romance and comedy, which doesn't have that deep and serious type of relationship narratives like Fruit Basket, but more towards a fun and comedic side of romance narrative. So for anyone that just wants a light-hearted and not too much thinking anime, then this is for you.

Animation 9/10
If you have seen the style of Studio Shaft. They like to be very creative and dynamic with their animation, where most of the scenes they draw are always colorful, unique, and dynamic with their background. You can see it has heavy inspiration from the Monogatari, Madoka, and Arakawa, where they usually add a 1 second scene within some of their anime to keep the animation fun to watch. That one second scene you'll usually see a lot of fan service, such as boobs, underwear or for the most part artistic decoration on the characters visual. Overall, the animation is very beautiful and well drawn that anyone wouldn't have a problem watching it.

Characters 8/10
The characters are well written for the most part. As I have explained pretty much everything at the story section, the characters are pretty much that. They are made for fun and comedic entertainment, and have a well-written premise that slowly connects their past. One problem is that when more characters are introduced, it does feel overwhelming to know all the characters' stories, and the pacing of the story does feel a bit rushed, and not enough independent content is shown for the characters because most of the time we only saw the characters together, not independently.

TLDR
If you're looking for the dumb fun romantic type of story, then Nisekoi would be for you as it has good animation with a dynamic background and a decent amount of fan services to keep the harem alive. The characters are well-written for the most part, but a bit rushed towards the end as there is not enough screen time for some of them.